Top Statesmen Quotes
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
Linda Lingle
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
Robert Toombs
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
Frank B. Kellogg
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
Arthur H. Sulzberger
Felix Frankfurter 
Linda Lingle 
Robert Welch 
Eisaku Sato 
Robert Toombs 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Hjalmar Branting 
Benjamin Disraeli 
William H. Seward 
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Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
Linda Lingle 
58% of people like this quote
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
55% of people like this quote
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
Robert Toombs
54% of people like this quote
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
Arthur H. Sulzberger
53% of people like this quote
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.
Frank B. Kellogg
53% of people like this quote
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards
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We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.
Rene Cassin
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Popular Statesmen Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonBenjamin DisraeliGilbert K. ChestertonJean BaudrillardArthur HendersonBob EdwardsFrank B. KelloggRobert ToombsFelix FrankfurterRobert Welch
Hjalmar BrantingWilliam H. SewardRene CassinMargaret MitchellAbigail AdamsHector Hugh MunroEisaku SatoArthur H. SulzbergerLinda LingleJohn Bachman
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